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Having worked on autonomous robot hardware i beg to differ
Having worked on neither, I blame it on someone trying to impress a lady.
Big Bang Theory reference? When Howard was trying to impress a girl?
Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
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#22This seems to be no big deal. Stuff like this is how learn to do real world robotics.
Sure, but your heart is probably still going to skip a few beats when you realize a software glitch has halted a $2.5 billion device.
Absolutely. But these types of glitches are necessary to learn about real world problems.
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#23A developer I know at JPL has been quite stressed about this operation. Unfortunately I can’t speak to details of the software changes.
That is the nature of the job, because the payoff when things work is so rewarding.
Good luck, Curiosity developers, engineers, and scientists -- we are all rooting for you.
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Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers
When Einstein worked on nuclear bomb the saying was: If he fails French will say he's American, Americans will say he's German, and Germans will say he's Jew. If he succeed Germans will say he's German, Americans will say he's American, and French will say he belongs to the world.
His comment was about the theory of relativity rather than the bomb:
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#26> Thanks to Curiosity, we have a better idea of where water existed (and may still exist) on Mars, as well as where we might be able to find evidence of ancient life.
I don't understand why everyone is so excited about finding life on Mars.
Life on Mars means life may be relatively common on water-bearing planets, which means the Filter is more likely to ahead of us than behind.
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#28> Thanks to Curiosity, we have a better idea of where water existed (and may still exist) on Mars, as well as where we might be able to find evidence of ancient life. I don't understand why everyone is so excited about finding life on Mars. Life on Mars means life may be relatively common on water-bearing planets, which means the Filter is more likely to ahead of us than behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQ…
Life on Mars could be related to life on Earth as both bodies have traded mass quite regularly over the last few billion years.
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#29A better title would be: Mars rover stops moving because it lost track of its orientation. This is uncommon, but well within the realm of "normal" contingencies. And in fact it has already been fixed.
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#30> Thanks to Curiosity, we have a better idea of where water existed (and may still exist) on Mars, as well as where we might be able to find evidence of ancient life. I don't understand why everyone is so excited about finding life on Mars. Life on Mars means life may be relatively common on water-bearing planets, which means the Filter is more likely to ahead of us than behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQ…
We don't have any evidence of life being common.